{"id":147112,"date":"2022-09-27T05:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasas-dart-spacecraft-crashes-into-an-asteroid-in-the-worlds-first-planetary-defense-test"},"modified":"2022-09-27T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T10:22:19","slug":"nasas-dart-spacecraft-crashes-into-an-asteroid-in-the-worlds-first-planetary-defense-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/nasas-dart-spacecraft-crashes-into-an-asteroid-in-the-worlds-first-planetary-defense-test","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft crashes into an asteroid in the world\u2019s first planetary defense test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4RA8Tfa6Sck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the world\u2019s first planetary defense technology demonstration, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made history as it successfully slammed into an asteroid target on Monday. The first \u2018attempt\u2019 to move an asteroid in space, the probe tested a way to protect our planet from future hazards and potential impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world\u2019s first planetary defense technology demonstration, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made history as it successfully slammed into an asteroid target on Monday. The first \u2018attempt\u2019 to move an asteroid in space, the probe tested a way to protect our planet from future hazards and potential impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}